| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 28-May-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal season ends with Honneger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher |
 Joan of Arc endures even today as one of history’s most obsessed-about martyrs. It’s no wonder when you consider that her story is of such uniqueness and potency: a poor, low-born French villager submerged in a war-battered France; it was the Hundred Years’ War, and as a child she witnessed several raids, both military and outlaw, and on one occasion saw her village burned. At the age of twelve she first began to have her visions, which she considered direct communication with God.Read full review... | |
| 8-Sep-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | The OSM open their season with Mahler's Resurrection Symphony |
.jpg) The second season of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in the new Maison Symphonique was celebrated tonight with the performance of a singularly gargantuan work, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. Orchestras around the world have performed this symphony to mark somber or solemn occasions, but here in Montréal it is offered simply as an olympian display of musicality by virtually every artist on the OSM payroll.
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